Bolivia Archive

  • I used  to like to boast about how few problems we’d run into in five years on the road bicycle touring around the world. I loved busting all the myths about the world being a dangerous place full of thieves, thugs and assorted evil-doers. In...

    A big bump in the road: a tale of thievery and loss

    Posted on May 9, 2011 | 47 Comments
    I used  to like to boast about how few problems we’d run into in five years on the road bicycle touring around the world. I loved busting all the myths about the world being a dangerous place full of thieves, thugs and assorted evil-doers. In...

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  • Our two big Andean adventures (Paso Sico and the remote Southwest Bolivia ride) left me with more than some nice photos and a few good tales to tell. Those cold hard rides had gifted me something that felt like the early stages of pneumonia. I...

    And so Pass the Days: a dispatch from Bolivia

    Posted on April 25, 2011 | 6 Comments
    Our two big Andean adventures (Paso Sico and the remote Southwest Bolivia ride) left me with more than some nice photos and a few good tales to tell. Those cold hard rides had gifted me something that felt like the early stages of pneumonia. I...

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  • “We’re going out for a while.  If any tourists show up, just tell them to wait.” Yeah, alright, sure…we’ll do that.  You can count on us–two random cyclists—to take charge of the Bolivia Immigration Post. From the Chilean desert town of San Pedro Atacama, where...

    Big Mountains, Colorful Lagunas and a Land Cruiser Invasion

    Posted on April 18, 2011 | 3 Comments
    “We’re going out for a while.  If any tourists show up, just tell them to wait.” Yeah, alright, sure…we’ll do that.  You can count on us–two random cyclists—to take charge of the Bolivia Immigration Post. From the Chilean desert town of San Pedro Atacama, where...

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  •   A last look at brazil..beautiful camping and cycling  Stephen Spender “Travel is an art which has to be created by the traveler.”  Total distance cycled:  83,399 kilometers  (52,452 miles)  Current Location:  Asuncion, Paraguay    Biking the Chaco embodies all that I despair of in...

    Cycling Bolivia–nothing beats the bike

    Posted on September 24, 2010 | 4 Comments
      A last look at brazil..beautiful camping and cycling  Stephen Spender “Travel is an art which has to be created by the traveler.”  Total distance cycled:  83,399 kilometers  (52,452 miles)  Current Location:  Asuncion, Paraguay    Biking the Chaco embodies all that I despair of in...

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